lime!

then have them pay for it.

anubis is basically a bitcoin miner, with the difficulty turned way down (and obviously not resulting in any coins), so it’s inherently random. if it takes minutes it does seem like something is wrong though. maybe a network error?

maybe it’s because i grew up with vhs first but dvd always felt like a lot of hassle compared to just “put it in and watch”

oh absolutely, it’s fascinating to hear a perspective i didn’t know existed.

i ripped all my dvds specifically to get rid of the menus because they were slow, hard to use, and full of frustrating animations. they usually just felt like an afterthought.

i’ve never been one to be swayed by extras, it usually just feels akin to jingling keys to get me to buy shit. maybe i’m weird.

i’ve never heard of anyone that keeps dvd menus around. like, i get it for archival purposes but i would never want to actually navigate a menu when i want to watch something. in my mind it’s like sitting through the commercials on a rented vhs. i would probably store a converted copy as well, in a format that would let me specify from the application what track and subtitle i want so i can set a default.

oh this was a while ago, i currently don’t have a homelab. i gave up waiting for mods to update and then it slipped my mind.

do you use a premade compose file or did you write your own? i started out my own but it quickly got very complicated…

i tend to use mit for things i see little value in, and something stronger for things i think may be useful.

but i don’t get to publish much code.

the “take our work and pay us nothing, please” crowd.

i’ve got a problem with what ESR calls open source.

like, the fact that free software is inherently political has been explored elsewhere in the thread, but the term “open source” was started by people who wanted to distance themselves from the free software movement due to them disliking that it was anti-commercial. the open source movement wanted more companies to adopt their code, in contrast to the GNU people trying to stop their work being absorbed into the old big iron.

and they won.

i feel like you missed the time between 1990 and 2005 when american libertarians caused a schism in the free software movement by popularising open source.

i do, all the time. there was a time where everyone was putting up personal websites and doing basic html. the entire geocities wave is proof of that. it was already decentralised.

the main thing is that, while gopher was designed under a set of limitations, gemini is designed off of a set of opinions. actively breaking backward compatibility is one of them i do not agree with.

of course it doesn’t need to sell to anyone. people working on it presumably like it. the difference is that gopher predates the web, so its sales pitch matched that of the web.

gemini’s sales pitch is that it’s a simplified version of the web, which i can respect, but their choice of not making it a subset of a standard means that it fails to be a viable alternative to the web, because that standard is so ubiquitous.

what the fuck?

still not sold on gemini. the project has sort of a holier-than-thou smell to it, striving for the sort of technological purity that makes it unattractive to use. i would still choose gopher.

they were first.

anyone using map, filter, reduce, or anything in itertools or functools?

only github users. git itself doesn’t have PRs, and other forges call them different things. gitlab calls them merge requests, pico calls them patch requests…

pass and continue are absolutely not equal (pass is a noop, and python has a continue keyword that does what you think), and switch is called match like in many other languages. except is weird though.